HPRB: Review Board can determine College’s jurisdiction on whether issues are matters of professional conduct or competence
Where an inquiry committee of a college under the BC Health Professions Act summarily...
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Sold out! – 2011 Professional Regulation Conference by Lovett & Westmacott and Ng Ariss Fong
JUNE 9, 2011: The 2011 Professional Regulation Conference by Lovett & Westmacott and Ng Ariss Fong...
Read MoreCase Watch: Assisted Suicide Revisited
On 26 April, 2011 the BC Civil Liberties Association, along with a number of...
Read MorePanellist Profile: Graeme Keirstead, Manager, Intake and Early Resolution, Law Society of British Columbia
We continue profiling speakers on the regulatory panel for our conference. This week we...
Read MoreJune 9th Conference Preview: 9:15-11:00am Applications for Registration – Implied Powers
Registration committees only have those powers that statutes give them expressly, or give them...
Read MoreWhere a Discipline Committee is “contaminated” by exposure to an inquiry settlement process, judicial review will be premature if an unbiased panel might still be convened
Upon an inquiry committee referring a matter for discipline, prejudice from investigative delay does...
Read MoreDuty of Ontario health regulators to give notice of a complaint, and an opportunity to respond
While the BC Health Professions Act does not expressly require that a registrant receive...
Read MorePanellist Profile: Kathy Corbett, Registrar and CEO, College of Occupational Therapists of British Columbia
TOPIC: SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE – Reducing Barriers for International Applicants Kathy Corbett is Registrar and...
Read MoreImplied powers of registration committees when holding fitness hearings
One of the key decisions to be made when addressing an application for registration...
Read MoreDisciplinary decisions not staying within the four corners of the citation and not addressing arguments advanced can be overturned
The importance of discipline panels issuing reasons that adequately support each finding of misconduct,...
Read MoreHPRB: Adequacy of investigation and when an Inquiry Committee must review records of other patients
The Health Professions Review Board found an investigation to be adequate, although the Inquiry...
Read MorePanellist Profile: Dr. Mary Watterson, Registrar, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia
We continue profiling speakers on the regulatory panel for our conference. This week we...
Read MoreRegistration: Difficult issues relating to good character
Regulatory bodies typically require that applicants for registration have “good character” as an element...
Read MoreJudicial review for apprehension of bias: Brar and the College of Veterinarians of BC
As the latest turn in the ongoing human rights claim by a group of...
Read MoreExtraordinary suspensions and procedural fairness; College use of documents acquired by complainant through litigation requires leave of the Court
In a recent decision, Madam Justice Humphries of the BC Supreme Court found a...
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